Posted: Tue 29 Apr 2014, 02:53 Post subject:
Re: How to Modify the Boot Process in Puppy 5.7?Subject description: What are the files involved in the boot process and how do I modify them?

8-bit wrote:

Then typing "xwin jwm" gives the desktop.
But what happens if one instead just types "firefox"?

I'm not sure if this will help fgluck but it is related to the question.
If you boot to command prompt in Debian and type:

Code:

xinit firefox

Firefox will start without active WM. Only background terminal messages with Firefox window will be active. In fact I'm typing this from Dillo started this way in Debian.
I don't know how will be possible to do the same in Puppy. Even DPup does not behave this way.

I have altered the boot process myself and the two key files for me are

/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

and

$HOME/.xinitrc

rc.sysinit mounts certain filesystems and loads kernel modules.

$HOME/.xinitrc gets run when Xorg starts up, it would appear that changing this file is one way to disable the windowmanager (typically JWM). I believe that there is a startup folder that can be used to autostart applications, for me it is easy enough to start them from $HOME/.xinitrc

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